How to Reset Your WordPress Website

How to Reset Your WordPress Website

 

this tutorial and one she had to reset your website two-factor default using a free plug-in called WP reset.

it's super simple. it's often faster than installing a new site and we're getting started right now so your site has a bunch of custom stuff like some posts that you created and also has some plugins installed and has a theme installed if we go to the media library it has a bunch of images.

here and we can reset all these and delete all this stuff and go back to a clean WordPress install by using a simple plug-in called WP reset. and that's why we're doing this post.

so let's go to plugins and then add new let's keep all these tabs and we'll refresh these tabs after we're done to see the change and we're gonna look up WP reset. and this first one is one we want. it's got a lot of great reviews a lot of installs click on install now when you're ready and then activate now we have a new menu option under tools called WP reset I'm going to click on there and here we reset the site something that's very important here in all caps it says no undo which means there is no undo.

so if you feel you might want to save something from this site make sure you make a backup I've linked to the toilet above show you how to use a backup using the free version of updraft plus super plug-in and at least have it back up in some peace of mind and here describes what's gonna be reset posts comments database tables things like that but will not be reset media files they will be removed from the media library page.

but they'll still exist in the BP uploads folder we're not going to touch any files plug-in steams and uploads everything stays the site title the address that address all under settings and in general all the things you see there those will stay the same as they are now and the logged in user which is me right now so I will fill whatever your name is or whatever your name is now we reset to the current password so you can still log in and you might be wondering well why can't we do Lee plug-in some themes and uploads we can just not with this process.

here we'll go into the tools after and we'll reset those or delete those so if we go down here to the very bottom we have some more choices we can reactivate the current theme which is the only thing we have and reactivate the dope you reset plugin which we'll want to do because we only use the tools tab to delete to the themes and plugins in just a moment and we can reactivate all currently active plugins if you want to I'm going to leave that unchecked then I'm gonna click I'm going to type down here reset because they want to make sure you know what you're doing and then click reset WordPress and then confirm again that you want to reset WordPress.

they can't emphasize the importance more there is no undo if you need to back up check out the tutorial I linked to previously click on reset WordPress when you're ready I'm going to fast forward while this runs and there we are site has been reset but what exactly has been reset let's take a look let's refresh the post page all of our posts are gone we're back to hello world default post we installed WordPress let's refresh the plugins page the plugins we had there before are deactivated WP reset is activated if we check that box to reactivate the plugins they would have been reactivated as well themes we only have one theme in here.

and it's saying there is no active theme because we don't have any other themes installed so there you go but the theme is still here media library let's reset or refresh this no media files are found however they are still on the server now if we go back into the tools and then WP reset we can now reset or delete the plugins themes media library things like that also delete WordPress transients from the database so click on this to delete transients click on this to clean up the uploads folder which is the images in your media library click on this to reset the theme options click on this to delete themes this one to delete plugins and you can read through there's a bunch more so I'm going to delete the theme yes I'm sure now if I refresh the themes page here we should have no themes and should just have this error because.

there is no theme here so that's what's expected before we delete the plugins let's delete the uploads folder by clicking here and this will delete all the images that were previously appearing in the media library but are now not appearing there and it cleared 261 files and folders in the uploads folder so those are all gone now if we delete plugins it may delete them if you reset plug-in although it kind of plug and delete itself I don't know that's a pretty philosophical question we'll find out in a second if plugins can delete themselves three plugins have been deleted so let's see which ones those are probably all the deactive unactive ones the beefy reset is still here which i half-expected now our uploads is clean media libraries clean themes are gone plugins are gone posts are gone pages are gone whatever else we had on the subject we didn't have any pages but if there were any those would be gone reset the default.

and that is how we use the WP reset plugin to reset our site now there's some more stuff here there's a DB snapshots DB short for database this allows you to take a snapshot of your database for backup purposes because you never know when something's going to go wrong it's always great to have backups I've linked to tutorial up above that explains why backups are so important under collections this is something the developers are still working on but the idea is you can have a collection of themes and plugins here that you can activate and install all of them with this one-click which is a huge time saver if you build a lot of websites under support.

there is of course support options so that's the WP reset plugin a nutshell there's a link to it in the description down below it's free in the WordPress repository so that's how the WP reset plugin can help you reset your WordPress site back to factory defaults quickly and easily it's often faster than installing a new site so check that out make sure you click Subscribe and ring the bell so you don't miss any of my videos and next up is checking out this video up here which explains why you need to backup your site as often as you can as often as you need to and down here is the video that YouTube thinks you should watch and my name is Beorn I'll pass from WP Learning Lab until next time keep crushing it and I will see you in the next video

How to Remove Admin Bar in WordPress

How to Remove Admin Bar in WordPress

 

welcome back to another episode of the Pixum web so today.

I'm going to show you a few ways that you can get rid of the admin bar of your WordPress powered website now there's a lot of ways to do it but I'm just gonna focus on three of them all right so why would you want to do this well if you find it distracting if you're designing your site and you see it's up there and you really don't need it to be there especially if it's distracting you then you know you may want to remove it and there are some easy options to do that and there are some more difficult options so I'm gonna start with the hardest option for now so I'm going to go to my text editor so I'm right here in my text editor and I have the snippet of code.

it's uh removed the admin bar from the front-end so pretty much you just hook it into the add filter show admin bar and you return false.

so I'm going to uncomment this code snippet right there I'm gonna save it go back to the front-end and I'm going to refresh the page alright so now it's gone alright so now how do you get back to the backend well that's easy to do I'm one you could either set it up that you have your meta um your meta login information towards the bottom like you know they're linked to your login page and that would just take you back or you can just type like that alright so you know that's not the most user-friendly way but it does deal with the issue of the admin bar on the front end now you still have it here in the backend which is fine you know but you know the purpose of it was for the front-end when you're here alright so now that was pretty painless I mean you could do that.

if you have a text editor and you upload it you know via no FTP to your server and then you know it's it'll work and there's other ways to do it I mean let me comment this out alright so now I'm going to take this and just copy that I mean let me save that file, of course, alright so now I'm gonna refresh and now you're back you have the admin bar back again alright so another way to do this I mean using the same snippet of code source still technically under the same um the same idea of using code which is not the easiest way.

but you know it is a way you can use the code snippet plug-in here and then you know you will put in the title so remove admin bar all right so now here you just pasted it and I'm using the code snippets plug-in it's a very user friendly plug-in to use if you don't want to create a child theme and for your site and if you don't want to worry about working with code from your local computer then you know migrating it to your server and things of that nature.

so alright so I put that snippet of code there again so let's look at that again just gonna increase the font size of the screen so again add on school filter opening-closing parentheses and then in single quotation marks or double quotation marks doesn't matter a show underscore admin underscore bar and then comma separated and then another a double underscore return underscore false and then don't forget to close off its a semicolon so you know you could save and activate the changes I'm gonna bring this back down now let's go to the front let's see.

if that worked and it worked all right so now I'm gonna go back to the back end you know I'm gonna go back to my snippet so I'm going to all snippets and I'm going to deactivate that one alright so what's it another way that we can do this alright so now where you see we have the admin bar back another way actually I'm very simple to do we could just go back to user profile and then show to bar ready view inside most people don't even realize this is here it's you know checked by default to show the admin bar but if you uncheck it update your profile and then go to the fun again it's no longer there alright so that works.

so now let's go back again I'm gonna go into my user profile and I'm going to show toolbar from viewing site once that's done I'll just confirm that it's done now another way it's extremely easy it's using a browser extension and if you look over here to the right here I have this WP admin bar Haider now what this does is I could just toggle on and off the admin bar and it just works I mean it's seamless it works on the front-end back-end you could just you know to just click it and it'll do what it's supposed to very user friendly alright so you can get that if you are know using foam and you go to the extent you go to your settings and then you go to extensions get extensions and the one you're gonna be looking for is this one right here it's the WordPress admin bar control you see it's kind of five stars it's very popular it's used by 10,000 torrenting users you know.

it's very useful for a name easy to use just click it and it does what it's supposed to so you can just take a look at that and that's an easy way to deal with the admin bar again this is you know something that you might want to explore using especially if you have a fixed menu bar up here that you know maybe Scrolls down and then stays fixed up there this thing is now using that but I have built things that do and there's a lot of ways to get around that also I could count for Wisc code again.

but it's just always easy just a toggle it on and off or use a snippet of code or just go in user profile settings and just disabling alright so that was a very simple way to do it three ways to do it one with code one by using you user profile and the other one by using a browser extension there are other ways you could use CSS to hide it you could you know to create another secondary location for it there are so many ways to do it you know but the more difficult it is the less likely it is for you to use it I just want to show you a few ways and a few options that you have alright so this was a quick code snippet and browser extension that you could use I'm to hide in the WordPress admin bar on the front end of your site hopefully you enjoyed the video if you found it helpful give us a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe because I'll give you more tips and tricks on how to manage your wordpress powered website I'll see you next time take care.